Attachment for vehicle-poles



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1-. QUEISZER. ATTACHMENT FOR VEIICLEPOLBS- No. 524,837. Patented Aug. 21, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

-ATTACHM ENT FOR VEHICLE PO LES.

SPECIFICALION forming part of Letters-Patent No. 524,837. dated August 21, 1894.

Application filed Match 24, 1894. Serial No. 505,020. (No modal.)

T0 au whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKQUEISZER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Vehicle- Foies; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enabl others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference heing had to the accompanying drawings, which form a partof this specifica' tion. 4

My invention relates to new and useful improvments in the construction of attachments for vehicle poles, and relates more particularly to devices for maintaining the evener or double-troc in its proper relative position with respect to the pole or tongue, and my said invention consists in the matters hercinafter described and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating 1ny invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of a vehicle pole with the evener and the whiffletreesattached thereto, and provided with my improved device. Fig. 2 is a detail view of my improvement, showing the parts of the same detached.

Referring by letter to said drawings, A designates the vehicle pole, B the evener, and C 0 the whiffle-trees, which may be of any ordinary or desired construction. It has been common ,heretoforc,to provide various forms of devices for normally retaining the evener in proper position with respect to the pole,

so as to prevent undue movement of the same my present invention, to provide a suitable device for engagement with the evener and with the tongue of the vehicle for permitting a proper amount of movement of the evener With respect to thetongue, but for limiting such movement, and at the same time for returning the evener to its normal position at right anglesto the pole or tongue. Tothis end, I provide a suitable armer brace D,

Which is secured by.bolts d 01 to the evener,

at opposite sides of the pole or togue and which is arranged to extend rearwardly substantially in the manner shown in Fig. 1, in the form of an arch. The central partD of this brace D is conveniently passed through an aperture in the pole ortongue in the manner shown, and this part of the brace is formed on the are of a circle concentric with the pivotal connection b between thepol and the evener. By this arrangement as the evener moves upon its pivotal support 1), the

'concentric central part D of the brace D is springs E E while permitting a considerable dcgt*ee of movement of the evener upon the pole, will serve to automatically return the evener to its normal position at right angles to the pole, and furthermore, while permitting a necessary degree of movement, the shoul dors e e Will limit the movement of the evener at the point Where the limit of compression of the springs btween said sh0ulder and the tongue or pole is reached.

As shoWn mo're particularly in Fig. 2 of the drawings, I findit convenient in practice to make the brace D in two sections, F and G, the former of which is provided at one end with a screw threaded shank, f, and the latter with a screw-threaded socket g, the joint being conveniently formed adjacent to one of the shoulders E E. By this construction, the section F may be adjusted in position, the central part D being passed through the aperture in the pole or tongue, and the springs adj usted in position and the other part G thon screwed onto the end of the part F, in an obvious manner, when the two ends of the brace may be readily secured to opposite sides of the evener, so as to hold the same normally at right. angles with respect to the polos.

Instead of the particular form of construc- IOO tion and of the means for attaching the device to the, pole, shown in the drawings,l may employ any other preferred form of constru This construction possesses the very objectionable featn'res that I am desirous of avoiding in my invention. That is to say the harness and the doubletree aresnbject to sudden sharp strains, there being no spring te gradually lessen the jar or strain. The quick pull which one of the draft animals exerts forces it violently forward and the abutment strikes against the strap and not'only jars the whole vehicle but as above said will have a tendency to break the doubletree and the straps by which theanimals are attached to the singletrees.

I am also aware that a doubletree pivoted to the rear end of the tongne by means of a rearwardly extending arm has been combined with springs secnred between two f0rWardly extending lugs attached to the doubletree and bearing on either side of an abutment on the tongue. N0r do I claim this as my invention. I obviate in my construction the serions disadvantages incident to the use of a device like this. It will be readily seen that by reason of the doubletree being pivoted at points in rearthereof, and having the springs arranged between two forwardly proj ecting lugs, that the pole will be easily roeked from side t0 side and knocked against the draft animals Having thns described my invention, what :forth.

I daim as new, and desire to scoute by Letters Patent of theUnited States, is

1- The combination with the vehicle pole having a guide permanently secured thereto, and the evener pivoted to the pole, of an arch bar secured at its ends to the vener and formed with stops, and having apart between said stops paSsing throngh 'said guide on the pole, and springs arranged around said bar between said stops and the guide, said bar being formed in two parts whereby it can be inserted in said guide, substantially as set 2. The combination with the pole, the evener,

and the pivot connecting the evener with the pole, of an attach1nent therefor comprising a brace iron o f generally .U-shape, formed in two parts Fand- G, adapted for engagement at its opposite ends with the evener upon opposite sdes of the pole, and provided-with a central part concentric with the pivot and passing through a guide secured permanently to the pole, stops formed on said parts F and G upon either side of the guide, and 'springs adapted to be interposed between said stops and said guide, said' two parts F and G having means for securing them together, substantially as set forth.

3. An attachment for vehicle poles comprising,a brace iron of a generally archer Ushapc, and formed from the two sections F and G, one

of whieh is provided with a screw-threaded shank and the other with a screw-threaded socket for the reception of the same, the

,springs E E and sholders e e formed respectively upon the parts F and G, snbstantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specificatien in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK QEISZER.

Witnesses:

J OHN E. WILES, M. M. WILES. 

